Example sentences of "but at the same time [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was hopelessly confused , not wanting to lose Georg , but at the same time obsessed with the pull of Gesner . |
| 2 | A business must be kept profitable into the long-term future , but at the same time short-term profitability must be maintained to avoid the danger that the long term will never be reached , and the business liquidated or taken over . |
| 3 | Thus in the period 1950–70 new businesses provided 70 000 new jobs but at the same time other factory closures caused 50 000 people to lose their jobs . |
| 4 | If we were to dismiss ‘ third persons ’ , then we would arrive at ‘ pure socialism ’ , but at the same time all the categories and problems of the transition period would disappear . |
| 5 | Crouching below the plain embattled tower these ancient cottages , built with traditional rubble walling stone and roofing tiles , gave the old grey town a natural but at the same time haphazard unit . |
| 6 | But at the same time that emptiness in her heart still haunted her , that emptiness that only Jake could fill . |
| 7 | Their insistence on selling only complete packages made the cost of buying the guides too expensive , but at the same time individual purchasing libraries have often gone on to modify the guides for local use ; and this is the greatest block to co-ordinated and centralized production — librarians prefer to prepare their own guides , tailor-made for their particular local needs . |
| 8 | It must be tight-fitting but at the same time easy to remove , for as the caterpillars grow they will consume enormous amounts of nettles . |
| 9 | Development there has been described by Lehmann as ‘ modernisation with fitful growth ’ , because the expansion of the state apparatus has meant modernisation in terms of growing bureaucracy and an increase in formal , at the expense of clientelist and personal , relationships at work but at the same time agricultural productivity has been erratic ( Lehmann 1982 ) . |
| 10 | In Middle-earth he wanted a similar ultimate courage undiluted by confidence — but at the same time untainted by rage and despair . |
| 11 | In the course of my own childhood and adolescence my immediate family went through several changes , mostly involving separation and loss , but at the same time certain factors remained constant . |
| 12 | Recently , with declining industries and unemployment , there has been less spare money , or capital , but at the same time many new industries are needed for the workers . |
| 13 | But at the same time many , like Cobbett in Rural Rides , believed they were tackling the wrong problem in the wrong way . |
| 14 | Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come . |
| 15 | I think he was conscious of a great deal probably , but at the same time many writers will tell you that they find when they 've finished a poem or a play things in it , demonstrably in it , systematically and intelligently present with real relations , which they do n't remember writing . |
| 16 | The language of the novel makes use of this cliché to demonstrate first that there is a profound ambiguity in the social construction of femininity according to which women are passive but at the same time subversive of the binary distinction which so construes them , and second that all people , male and female , are condemned to being at least partially the product of the language of others . |
| 17 | One of the best known and most popular members of the Apistogramma genus is A.agassizii , a fish which is interesting enough to attract the cichlid enthusiast , but at the same time amenable to community care by the relative beginner . |
| 18 | That means division that 's what , you 've done them right , they 're divisions but three into twelve goes four but at the same time four times three is twelve , you can change it into a multiplication but it , it does n't start off as one . |
| 19 | But at the same time these physical forms are the means by which each group ( including Negroes , Italians , Mexicans and Puerto Ricans ) actively monitors , and sometimes resists , the incursions of others . |
| 20 | ‘ It is devastatingly funny , but at the same time poignant ’ Evening News |
| 21 | He was curiously moved , but at the same time suspicious of his own reactions . |
| 22 | ‘ This verse described a boy who had been trembling in front of the bathroom door , but at the same time this boy was swallowed up by the verse ; it surmounted and survived him . |
| 23 | But at the same time this form of contact can seem to other policemen and women as skiving , as even one member of the public described it to the field-worker ( FN 17/12/87 ) , p. 6 ) , although such a caricature obscures the fact that the contact often has a more meaningful purpose . |
| 24 | True , Bernard did want her to be a housewife and mother but at the same time this was Laura 's interpretation of what he wanted and she believed deeply that it was wrong to challenge a husband 's authority . |
| 25 | For example , if retail prices should rise by 10 per cent in a single year , but at the same time after-tax incomes should also rise by 10 per cent as a result of cuts in direct taxation , then the Tax and Price Index method would record a zero rate of inflation . |
| 26 | Fairly typical was the assessment of both works as ‘ picturesque , but at the same time restless , and verging occasionally on the sentimental ’ . |
| 27 | But you 're always smart , you 're always intellectual , and you 're always a woman who 's in control but at the same time sexy and … fun . ’ |
| 28 | But at the same time last year 42 people had lost their lives at the hands of the roaming death squads . |
| 29 | Some foreign ministry officials ( like Briand 20 years before ) saw European unity as the only solution : France and Germany could join in European institutions as equals , with no need for special controls on Germany ; but at the same time German economic independence would be restricted and German resources would be used for the good of a greater whole . |
| 30 | Funding is where the Bank of England , if it wishes to reduce the money supply , issues more government bonds , but at the same time fewer Treasury bills . |